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...best, you must play the best. Since California is the mecca for water polo, that’s exactly where the Harvard women’s water polo team traveled to compete against six of the West Coast’s best teams, including two ranked opponents, over spring break...
...Crimson began the break with a 7-4 win over Fresno Pacific on Monday before falling later that day to UC Davis, 12-4. After another day of practice, Harvard faced No. 7 San Jose State on Wednesday, coming away with a 13-7 loss...
Harvard started its spring break on the upswing, beating its first opponent of the week, 7-4 on Monday. McCarthy and the defense stayed solid in the first three quarters as the Crimson grabbed a 6-1 lead going into the final eight minutes...
...also the reason the job-creation bill passed by Congress includes an accelerated tax break for companies buying equipment. Companies that sell equipment need people to build it, and companies that buy equipment need people to run and maintain it. Many firms outside of financial services have surprisingly solid balance sheets, Manyika points out, and might be wooed into investing sooner rather than later. That would drum up sales for the firms they'd be buying equipment from...
...cuts for businesses that hire - and then retain - workers will likely wind up doing more of the same. No businessman in his right mind is going to add the long-term liability of a worker simply for the short-term benefit of a tax break. On the other hand, such incentives may accelerate some hiring that would have eventually happened anyway, and that would put more money into consumers' pockets faster. Of course, extra spending and tax cuts contribute to the $1.5 trillion federal deficit, and that drags on the economy. (See "How High Could the U.S. Tax Rate...